Windows CD -- why not?

It was by contacting ASUS that I found out about it.

I posted here because I wanted to know what people thought. Apparently, what people think is that anything we can work around is fine.

Because I shouldn't have to engage in "work-arounds" to get the driver disc for my laptop. I shouldn't be stuck with "there's some guy on an internet forum, neither the guy nor the forum has any affiliation with ASUS, but he has an ISO image of the disc." That's... not really very polished.

But I get the picture; the reason it's like this is that most ASUS customers don't expect any better, and thus, ASUS has no reason to provide these CDs, even at a substantial profit, because the bulk of their customers will tell anyone who's not enthusiastic about everything ASUS does to go elsewhere.

Sorta weird, to me. When I like a product or company I usually want them to be the best they can, rather than directing people who want them to do better to go buy something else.

 

If they had provided you with whatever you are on about for the last 6 pages you'd be in here complaining about it being outdated. so for the love of whatever you keep holy,let this thread die off in peace already

 

complainingcomplainingcomplainingcomplainingcomplainingcomplainingcomplaining

 

GET OVER IT!

/rant

 

....*smack*
...wait are people attacking ME right now ? O_O

 

i smell a troll.

 

this post is to see how seebs complains, however much we give solutions

 

1) If you were concerned about the Driver Disc, you should have bought a configuration by Asus, instead of a retailer like Best Buy. Best Buy chose not to include any discs at all. You wanted a G73JH for only $1200? You GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. The A, B, and X series all come with the Drivers and Application Disc. If you are not happy by getting support by the Notebook Community, then you are SOL. And by that mindset, you better not use any freeware and OpenSource software since they don't have any guarantee of quality.

If it wasn't for the concerns and support given by your fellow G73 owners, you wouldn't have any of the recent fixes, and the users wouldn't have had any options to survive the last 6 months, with all the supplied workarounds that many caring souls worked hard to figure out, and shared with everyone. When the Cowboom refurbs became popular, there were many people pleading for help with installing fresh installs, as Asus' website at the time lacked many programs online, or have installers that do not work. So in order to help, I supplied an image of same-said disc so they can at least help themselves and move on. Except you. You seem to think that this isn't good enough, and shouldn't happen. Well, it does happen. It will happen again. And Grassroot Support will remain to be the last effort where Corporations fail.

Congrats, you actually managed to get me peeved off. Thanks alot.

2) What is the difference between the Original Windows 7 install disc and the iso image of the install disc from Microsoft's servers? The bandwidth for the download, and the $.10 for the media to burn. Other than that, they function exactly the same. Have issues with slipstreamed versions? Don't install with them, and apply the updates as stand-alones. Don't like this option either?

Buy a Mac.

PS- please do not reply to this post. I really do not have anything to add, or discuss.

 

From what I understand if you order the "recovery discs" with Xotic PC there is an "easter egg" in the recovery discs to allow you to do a clean Windows 7 install just like you were using the genuine microsoft OS disc... but you have to let them do the recovery discs.

This whole thing of manufacturers not including OS discs is a pain, especially the ones that just create a disaster "recovery" partition... that is worthless if the hard drive crashes and the average novice is not going to know they have to burn discs when they first get their PC. Of course these are the same people that would lose their operating system and drivers discs anyways...sooooo.....

 

Agreed, Buy a Mac if still complaining and upset over this.

 

http://estore.asus.com/shop/category.asp?catid=749 search for recovery disks your welcome

 

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